Russ Lindert has the distinction of being Norm Drazy's first PSI Blower
Customer, a good trivia question for this class...
He runs his best pass of the weekend, but so did Reichert. Nice pass for the A
fuel dragster, he was going 216.58 mph at half track, then marched the rest of the
way to the stripe.

David Wells is using a wing borrowed from Shelly Howard after his came off in
the final qualifying round yesterday. Henkelman's dragster has run in the 5.20's
(Seattle) so this is anyone's dragrace.
It's Henkelman! .953 short-time, 218.72 mph at half track. Wells kept things
close, but was trailing from the 330-foot mark on. Margin of victory = 0.053
seconds (approximately 20 feet).

Both drivers had tire shake - Jones drove through his while Cannon started
hazing, then blazing the tires. For the third pairing in a row the winner runs
well under his qualifying time, this is turning into a great round of
racing!

Hirata's having a hard time getting the car out of reverse after backing up
from the burnout, but with a little "rocking action" from the crew they manage to
get the dragster to go into forward mode again.
Gallant continues the performance trend - he slams the door shut on the nitro
burner with another run below his qualifying time. .922 short time for Gallant,
213.47 mph at the halfway point.

Great drag race! With a big hole shot advantage at the start McCornack held
off the hard charging Meyer, who didn't have enough track to overcome the deficit.
It was close at the stripe - just three feet was the margin of victory.

Rudy had trouble getting his A Fueler into reverse. It looked like Stark was
going to have a single, but Rudy was finally able to get backed up.
Bamm! Stark's run was conservative at the start, just .975 to the 60-foot marker,
but then the big yellow dragster marched like a champion all the way to the stripe.
That's Low ET of the meet for Stark.

Kenny is here watching son Brandon take on one of the categories best - Brandon
deep staged, but Howard still left on him, over powered him, and put the Bud Prince
on the trailer. Howard will race Brandon Henkelman in round two, and Henkelman
will have lane choice. Howard is now 2-0 against the young driver, who like his
father seems to have some trouble against women drivers in the first
round....

The winner will race Bill Reichert in round two. Duane and the rest of the
team were up watching the Funny Car session last night, and are very excited to
race here at Indy.
Shields run was almost boring to watch. No tire shake, no wiggles, no movement
from side to side. Just a super smooth run into round two, and Duane will have
lane choice in round two.
The other match-ups are McCornack and Gallant, Stark will race Jones, and Shelly
Howard will race Brandon Henkelman's A Fuel Dragster.